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The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation at a glance

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The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$219k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$594kArts & Culture$177kHuman Services$134kInternational$70kPhilanthropy$57kCommunity Improvement$28kHealth$16kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BENI AKIVA$36,000
OHR TORAH STONE INSTITUTIONS$30,000
JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE$20,000
G'MACH ZICHRON MOSHE$20,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$10,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL$10,000
YESHIVA OHR TORAH$8,000
NJOP$8,000
ZICHRON AVOS$7,200
SECOND STAGE THEATER$6,500
MANHATTAN THEATER CLUB$6,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATER$5,000
THEATER FOR A NEW AUDIENCE$5,000
THE PUBLIC THEATER$3,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NACHALAT SHAI$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OORAH: $250 → 11%OORAH: $250 → 11%OORAH: $250 → 11%OHEL MOSHE SPECIAL FUND: $1k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $1k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $500 → 11%JCC OF MANHATTAN: $180 → 17%DOROT INC: $1k → 17%DOROT INC: $1k → 17%DOROT: $360 → 17%DOROT: $180 → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $2k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $500 → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $500 → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 68 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
31

Total granted

$1.1M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+18%

Still filing today

59%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • OT
    Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel
    6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +74%
  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +19%
  • MT
    MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • YY
    YAD YISROEL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -73%
  • TN
    THE NEW GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +125%
  • OH
    Ohr HaTorah
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
4
University of Judaism Foundation
—
5
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
6
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
8
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
9
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends Tomchai Shabat Foundation
—
12
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
46/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BENI AKIVA: $112,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BENI AKIVALINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INC: $82,000 · OtherLINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INCYESHIVA OHR TORAH: $54,000 · OtherYESHIVA OHR TORAHUNITED JEWISH APPEAL: $50,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEALZICHRON AVOS: $23,400 · OtherROUNDABOUT THEATER: $21,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NACHALAT SHAI: $20,000 · Other+59 more: $149,065 · Other+59 moreOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $185,000 · ReligionOhr Torah Stone Instituti…NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $48,000 · ReligionNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH …TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Religion+7 more: $9,780 · ReligionJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $65,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH EDUCAT…MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THE…THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SECOND ST…THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $10,220 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BE…NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $9,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAK…ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $4,800 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $9,440 · Arts & Culture+5 moreGEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE INC: $106,000 · Community ImprovementGEMACH ZIC…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $43,725 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC: $11,600 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $7,800 · Philanthropy+3 more: $3,800 · PhilanthropyJUST ONE LIFE INC: $17,500 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $6,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $4,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,460 · International+1 more: $200 · InternationalTHE TIKVAH FUND: $18,000 · EducationSEFARIA INC: $10,000 · EducationOhr HaTorah: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $550 · Education
Other$511,465Religion$251,780Arts & Culture$138,460Community Improvement$106,000Philanthropy$66,925International$31,660Education$31,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $185,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE INC: $106,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $65,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $48,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $43,725 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUST ONE LIFE INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC: $11,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $10,220 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEFARIA INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $7,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $6,320 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $4,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $4,460 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $3,580 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,460 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $3,260 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $2,540 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE TORAH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $1,580 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASBIA: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Halachic Organ Donor Society Inc DBA Ematai: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHASC PA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetEFRAT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $930 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPaamonim: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOORAH INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $560 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
  • Who funds GEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
  • Who funds JUST ONE LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
  • Who funds SEFARIA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds YAD YISROEL ↗
  • Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Federation of …FjcCombined Jewish Phila…Nash Family FoundationJewish Community Foun…The Ojc FundCd FoundationGreater Miami Jewish …Feldman Family Founda…Gertrude and Morris B…Mutual of America Fou…
Jewish Communal FundNY35.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Nash Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Ojc Fund · Cd Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Feldman Family Foundation Inc · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Oorah Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home